Child survives plane crash in Indian Ocean

CAIRO (AP) - A Comoros police official says a toddler has been rescued from the sea in the Airbus 310 crash off the Indian Ocean island.
   
An immigration officer tells The Associated Press that three bodies have also been retrieved, along with debris from the plane, but that no other survivors have been recovered so far.
   
She says the rescue and search operation is continuing.
   
The Yemeni Airbus 310 crashed with 142 passengers and a crew of 11 Yemenis on board before landing in Moroni, on the main island of Grand Comore, early Tuesday. The senior commander for French forces in the southern Indian Ocean says the plane crashed in deep waters about 8 nautical miles (9.2 miles) north of the coast.
   
Most of the passengers were from Comoros, returning from Paris. Sixty-six on board were French nationals.

France’s transport minister says French aviation inspectors found a “number of faults” during a 2007 inspection of a plane.

The minister tells France’s i-Tele television the plane had not returned to French air space since. He says the airline was not on any European black lists but “was subject to stricter surveillance” and was scheduled for an upcoming interview with European Union safety officials.